.. _kubernetes.core.k8s_cp_module: ********************** kubernetes.core.k8s_cp ********************** **Copy files and directories to and from pod.** Version added: 2.2.0 .. contents:: :local: :depth: 1 Synopsis -------- - Use the Kubernetes Python client to copy files and directories to and from containers inside a pod. Requirements ------------ The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module. - python >= 3.9 - kubernetes >= 24.2.0 Parameters ---------- .. raw:: html
Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_key
string
Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_API_KEY environment variable.
ca_cert
path
Path to a CA certificate used to authenticate with the API. The full certificate chain must be provided to avoid certificate validation errors. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT environment variable.

aliases: ssl_ca_cert
client_cert
path
Path to a certificate used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CERT_FILE environment variable.

aliases: cert_file
client_key
path
Path to a key file used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KEY_FILE environment variable.

aliases: key_file
container
string
The name of the container in the pod to copy files/directories from/to.
Defaults to the only container if there is only one container in the pod.
content
string
When used instead of local_path, sets the contents of a local file directly to the specified value.
Works only when remote_path is a file. Creates the file if it does not exist.
For advanced formatting or if the content contains a variable, use the ansible.builtin.template module.
Mutually exclusive with local_path.
context
string
The name of a context found in the config file. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT environment variable.
host
string
Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_HOST environment variable.
impersonate_groups
list / elements=string
added in 2.3.0
Group(s) to impersonate for the operation.
Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_GROUPS environment. Example: Group1,Group2
impersonate_user
string
added in 2.3.0
Username to impersonate for the operation.
Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_USER environment.
kubeconfig
raw
Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from ~/.kube/config. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.
Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator ';' for Windows platform or ':' for others platforms.
The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version >= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.
local_path
path
Path of the local file or directory.
Required when state is set to from_pod.
Mutually exclusive with content.
namespace
string / required
The pod namespace name.
no_preserve
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
The copied file/directory's ownership and permissions will not be preserved in the container.
This option is ignored when content is set or when state is set to from_pod.
no_proxy
string
added in 2.3.0
The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn't go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable.
Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY).
This feature requires kubernetes>=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct.
example value is "localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16"
password
string
Provide a password for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PASSWORD environment variable.
Please read the description of the username option for a discussion of when this option is applicable.
persist_config
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether or not to save the kube config refresh tokens. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PERSIST_CONFIG environment variable.
When the k8s context is using a user credentials with refresh tokens (like oidc or gke/gcloud auth), the token is refreshed by the k8s python client library but not saved by default. So the old refresh token can expire and the next auth might fail. Setting this flag to true will tell the k8s python client to save the new refresh token to the kube config file.
Default to false.
Please note that the current version of the k8s python client library does not support setting this flag to True yet.
The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169
pod
string / required
The pod name.
proxy
string
The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY environment variable.
Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).
proxy_headers
dictionary
added in 2.0.0
The Header used for the HTTP proxy.
Documentation can be found here https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/urllib3.util.html?highlight=proxy_headers#urllib3.util.make_headers.
basic_auth
string
Colon-separated username:password for basic authentication header.
Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_BASIC_AUTH environment.
proxy_basic_auth
string
Colon-separated username:password for proxy basic authentication header.
Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_PROXY_BASIC_AUTH environment.
user_agent
string
String representing the user-agent you want, such as foo/1.0.
Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_USER_AGENT environment.
remote_path
path / required
Path of the file or directory to copy.
state
string
    Choices:
  • to_pod ←
  • from_pod
When set to to_pod, the local local_path file or directory will be copied to remote_path into the pod.
When set to from_pod, the remote file or directory remote_path from pod will be copied locally to local_path.
username
string
Provide a username for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_USERNAME environment variable.
Please note that this only works with clusters configured to use HTTP Basic Auth. If your cluster has a different form of authentication (e.g. OAuth2 in OpenShift), this option will not work as expected and you should look into the community.okd.k8s_auth module, as that might do what you need.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether or not to verify the API server's SSL certificates. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL environment variable.

aliases: verify_ssl

Notes ----- .. note:: - the tar binary is required on the container when copying from local filesystem to pod. - the (init) container has to be started before you copy files or directories to it. - To avoid SSL certificate validation errors when ``validate_certs`` is *True*, the full certificate chain for the API server must be provided via ``ca_cert`` or in the kubeconfig file. Examples -------- .. code-block:: yaml # kubectl cp /tmp/foo some-namespace/some-pod:/tmp/bar - name: Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod kubernetes.core.k8s_cp: namespace: some-namespace pod: some-pod remote_path: /tmp/bar local_path: /tmp/foo # kubectl cp /tmp/foo_dir some-namespace/some-pod:/tmp/bar_dir - name: Copy /tmp/foo_dir local directory to /tmp/bar_dir in a remote pod kubernetes.core.k8s_cp: namespace: some-namespace pod: some-pod remote_path: /tmp/bar_dir local_path: /tmp/foo_dir # kubectl cp /tmp/foo some-namespace/some-pod:/tmp/bar -c some-container - name: Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod in a specific container kubernetes.core.k8s_cp: namespace: some-namespace pod: some-pod container: some-container remote_path: /tmp/bar local_path: /tmp/foo no_preserve: True state: to_pod # kubectl cp some-namespace/some-pod:/tmp/foo /tmp/bar - name: Copy /tmp/foo from a remote pod to /tmp/bar locally kubernetes.core.k8s_cp: namespace: some-namespace pod: some-pod remote_path: /tmp/foo local_path: /tmp/bar state: from_pod # copy content into a file in the remote pod - name: Copy content into a file in the remote pod kubernetes.core.k8s_cp: state: to_pod namespace: some-namespace pod: some-pod remote_path: /tmp/foo.txt content: "This content will be copied into remote file" Return Values ------------- Common return values are documented `here `_, the following are the fields unique to this module: .. raw:: html
Key Returned Description
result
string
success
message describing the copy operation successfully done.


Status ------ Authors ~~~~~~~ - Aubin Bikouo (@abikouo)